large beads , as depicted in sculpted portraits of the king . one of the outstanding pieces recovered from the tomb was an ornate jade mosaic vessel with the lid bearing a sculpted portrait of the king himself . burial 195 was flooded with mud in antiquity . this flood had covered wooden objects that had completely rot ##ted away by the time the tomb was excavated , leaving hollow ##s in the dried mud . archaeologists filled these hollow ##s with stucco and thus excavated four e ##ffi ##gies of the god k ' aw ##ii ##l , the wooden originals long gone . burial 196 is a late classic royal tomb that contained a jade mosaic vessel topped with the head of the maize god .
large beads, as depicted in sculpted portraits of the king. one of the outstanding pieces recovered from the tomb was an ornate jade mosaic vessel with the lid bearing a sculpted portrait of the king himself. burial 195 was flooded with mud in antiquity. this flood had covered wooden objects that had completely rotted away by the time the tomb was excavated, leaving hollows in the dried mud. archaeologists filled these hollows with stucco and thus excavated four effigies of the god k'awiil, the wooden originals long gone. burial 196 is a late classic royal tomb that contained a jade mosaic vessel topped with the head of the maize god.